Ko covered Cat Chow, the Chicago-based conceptual fashion designer, earlier but i thought I would add a couple more pics and thoughts:

- Cat Chow's fashion work seems to focus on repetition of elements, meticulous details, and purity of concept, with amazing results.

- Some of my favorite designs were her measuring tape dress (a dress made out of woven measuring tapes) and of course the $1 bill dress (1000 donated $1 bills, shredded and restitched).

- She was comissioned to make a dress for Nokia out of cell phone front faces... And what did she name it? "Cell Out"

- Cat Chow talking about her amazing chainmail dresses: "I worked in a chainmail store for a while... and I asked them to pay me in rings...

- I recommend checking out her website for more visuals-- Cat-Chow.com.

Cat Chow dropping science.

A detail of her amazing zipper-dress-- a dress made entirely out of one continuous piece of zipper tape!